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2022: 700,000 Page Challenge
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn byArkady Strugatsky pg 256Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Pg 444
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Pg567
The Psychopathy of Everday Life by Sigmund Freud
Pg 255
Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
Pg276
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Pg 224
Group total 366,707
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -432Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 107
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber- 10
Group total= 367,256
Rosemarie wrote: "Tabitha, all classics read in 2022 count for the challenge." Ah, perfecto. Thank you. I think thats it for me so far this year then.
Doctor Zhivago 471 pages
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
192 pages
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
324 pages
Life and Fate
864 pages
The Power of the Dog
306 pages
Group total: 373,934 pages
Adding what I've read this year so far:Aesop's Fables 145 pages
All-of-a-Kind Family 188 pages
Anatole 40 pages
Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender 32 pages
Camilla 108 pages
Castle Rackrent 87 pages
The Cherry Orchard 96 pages
The Children of Green Knowe 192 pages
Door in the Wall & Other Stories HG Wells 148 pages
Ensouled Violin 48 pages
Five Children and It 237 pages
Horseman in the Sky 25 pages
House of Mirth 351 pages
how the poor die Orwell 26 pages
The Idiot 667 pages
J’Accuse 15 pages
Kidnapped 136 pages
Last Question 9 pages
Monkey’s Paw 32 pages
The Moomins & the Great Flood 52 pages
Mother Carey’s Chickens 384 pages
Murder at the Vicarage 268 pages
Oedipus Rex 75 pages
Polish Fairy Tales 152 pages
Princess and the Goblin 241pages
Prometheus Bound 30 pages
Rain from Trembling of a Leaf 64 pages
Ragged Dick 120 pages
The Raven 4 pages
Razor's Edge 314 pages
The Saturdays 177 pages
Sea Wolf 288 pages
Solaris 204 pages
To Sir, With Love 189 pages
A Town Like Alice 359 pages
Uncle Vanya 116 pages
Wasteland 24 pages
Wonder Clock 318 pages
Youth by Conrad 30 pages
For my total of 5991 pages
Group Total: 380,532
The Wild Swans At Coole by W.B. Yeats
8/16/22
56 pages
Poetry by Arthur Quiller-Couch
8/15/22
31 pages
Total to date: 380,619
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Published 1922
p. 247
Hiroshima by John Hersey

Originally published 1946
p. 100*
*This is where the original text from 1946 ends in my edition. The rest of the edition was added in the 80s
my total: 347
Group: 381,010
Murder Abroad by E.R. Punshon - 251 pgs
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 195 pgs (my hadcover edition is not on GR)
Total to Date: 383,373 pgs
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 4: The Debt of Tears by Cao Xueqin398 pages
Total to date: 384,624
Valerie wrote: "Italo Calvino - The Distance of the Moon56 pages
Total to date: 384,680"
Might want to check your page figure. Your total number is less than the previous total amount. Thanks, Tim
Thanks for catching that, Tim. It looks like Valerie and Jillian were posting at the exact same time!
Our new group total is 385 000 pages!
Our new group total is 385 000 pages!
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
354 pg
Animal Farm by George Orwell
141 pg
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
264 pg
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
331 pg
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by by Douglas Adams
216 pg
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
250 pg
My total: 1,556 pages
Group total to date: 387,111
354 pg
Animal Farm by George Orwell
141 pg
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
264 pg
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
331 pg
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by by Douglas Adams
216 pg
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
250 pg
My total: 1,556 pages
Group total to date: 387,111
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Total to date: 364,435 (I added message 996 page count that somehow got lost in the way)